Tutorial quote: Gensplash is a project started by Spock whose aim is to create a set of tools which could enrich the Gentoo boot process by displaying messages, animations, progress bars, etc. An explanation of the various things named *splash (bootsplash, gensplash, fbsplash, and splashutils) and how they relate to each other, can be found at Spock's Gensplash site.

Fbsplash is part of the gensplash project. According to fbsplash's documentation, "the framebuffer splash is a kernel feature that allows displaying a background picture on selected consoles and switching the first console to the so-called silent mode, while booting/rebooting/shutting down the system." The fbsplash device is accessed through the /dev/fbsplash device node. For fbsplash to work, a frame buffer device is required.

Tutorial quote: I've been looking for a quick solution to streaming my music from home without all of the messy and complicated configuration of icecast. Today I stumbled upon edna , which allows you to quickly stream your music to any other networked computer. You don't need to run apache, you don't need to spend lots of time configuring it, it does almost all of the work for you.